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THE 



mnKLIN institute 



STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA 



FOR THE 



PROMOTION OF THE MEGHANIG ARTS 



IHARTER AND BY-LAWS OF THE INSTITUTE. 

BY-LAWS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS. 

EGULATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE 
AND THE ARTS. 



PHILADELPHIA:' 

Published by the Institute. 

1900. 



THE 



FRANKLIN INSTITUTE 



STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA 



PROMOTION OF THE MECHANIC ARTS 



CHARTER AND BY-LAWS OF THE INSTITUTE. 

BY-LAWS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS. 

REGULATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE 
AND THE ARTS. 



PHILADELPHIA: 

Published by the Institute 

1900. 



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CHARTER AND BY-LAWS OF THE FRANKLIN 
INSTITUTE 

OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE 
MECHANIC ARTS. 



An Act to amend and alter the Act incorporating the Franklin 
Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the promotion of the 
Mechanic Arts. 

Whereas: The Act approved March thirtieth, one thousand eight 
hundred and twenty-four, incorporating the Franklin Institute of the 
State of Pennsylvania, for the promotion of the Mechanic Arts, has 
been found insufficient and inconvenient for accomplishing the objects 
of said corporation, and the said corporation has applied for alteration 
and amendment thereof. 

Section i. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- 
tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly 
met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the 
present members of said corporation, and all such persons as may here- 
after become members thereof, shall be, and are hereby created, a body 
politic and corporate by the name of the "Fkanklin Institute of 
the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic 
Arts," and shall have perpetual succession, be able to sue and be 
sued, to plead and be impleaded, to have and use a common seal, and 
the same to break, alter and renew at pleasure, and shall be able to 
take, hold, purchase and enjoy such real and other estates of any 
nature or kind whatsoever as they may obtain by purchase, devise, 
bequest or gift, and the same at their pleasure to sell, lease, mort- 
gage, pledge, encumber, or dispose of as they may deem proper or 
convenient for promoting the objects of the said corporation; and the 
said corporation shall have the like power over any real or other 
estates now owned or held by them; provided, that the clear yearly 
value of the real estate at any time held by them shall not exceed ten 
thousand dollars. 

Sect. 2. That it shall be lawful for the said corporation to raise 
funds for the payment of its present indebtedness, and for all other 



purposes of the said corporation, to create and sell such number of 
shares of stock, at ten dollars each, as may be deemed proper to repre- 
sent the estates of the said corporation, and the certificates of such 
stock shall be in such form, be transferable in such manner, subject to 
such payments, and entitle the holder thereof to such privileges, as the 
said corporation may, by its by-laws in reference to such stock, grant 
and direct. 

Sect. 3. The object of the said corporation shall be the promo- 
tion and encouragement of manufactures and the mechanical and 
useful arts, by the establishment of lectures on the sciences connected 
with them, by the formation of cabinets of models, minerals, machines, 
materials and products, by exhibitions and premiums, by a library 
and by all such measures as they may judge expedient. 

Sect. 4. The members of the said corporation shall consist of 
manufacturers, mechanics, artisans, and persons friendly to the me- 
chanic arts, and of such stockholders in said corporation as may, by 
the by-laws, be entitled to the privileges of members; and every 
member shall pay such sum for an annual or life subscription as the 
by-laws of said corporation may require; and honorary and corre- 
sponding members may be elected at such times, and in such a way, 
and with such privileges as said corporation may deem expedient. 

Sect. 5. The said corporation shall be managed in such way, 
and by such number of officers, managers and other persons as the 
by-laws may prescribe; and the powers and functions of such officers, 
managers and other persons, the rights and duties of members, the 
manner of their election, and the causes which may justify their ex- 
pulsion or suspension, and all other concerns of the said corporation, 
shall be fixed and regulated by its' by-laws, which by-laws shall be 
adopted by said corporation at the first monthly meeting after the 
acceptance of this amended Charter, and said by-laws shall be altered 
and amended only in the manner provided in said by-laws as then 
adopted. 

Sect. 6. So much of the Act to which this is a supplement as is 
inconsistent herewith is repealed. 

Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth 
of Pennsylvania, April 25. 1864. 

I certify that the foregoing bill passed both branches of the 
Legislature, and received the signature of the Governor on this day. 
As witness my hand the day and year above written. 

(Signed) Eli Slifer, 

Secretary of the Commonwealth. 



BY-LAWS. 

Article I. — Trustees. 

Section i. All Real and Personal Estate of the Institute which 
may hereafter be acquired by voluntary subscription or devise, be- 
quest, donation, or in any way other than through its own earnings or by 
investment of its own funds, saving where the donors shall expressly 
provide to the contrary, shall be taken as acquired upon the condition 
that the same shall be vested in a Board of Trustees who shall be 
appointed in the manner hereinafter indicated. Unless the title to 
such property shall be directly vested in said Board of Trustees by the 
donors, the Institute, by deed attested by the President and Secretary, 
which they are hereby authorized to, execute and deliver, shall forth- 
with convey the same to said Trustees, who shall hold it in trust for 
the purposes specifically designated by the donors; or, if there shall 
be no specific designation, for the benefit of the Institute in the way 
and manner hereinafter provided, so that the same shall not, in any 
event, be liable for the debts of the Institute. 

Sect. 2. Said Board of Trustees shall be composed of seven (7) 
members, who shall be elected as follows: — 

They shall be nominated at a stated meeting of the Board of 
Managers, at least one (1) month prior to the election. They shall be 
elected by a vote of two-thirds { 2 /z) of the members present. 

In case of a vacancy occurring in the Board of Trustees, it shall 
be filled as follows: — 

The Board of Trustees shall nominate to the Board of Managers 
three (3) suitable persons, and the Board of Managers shall elect one 
(1) of the three (3) to fill the vacancy. 

The remaining members of the Board of Trustees, whenever at 
any time it shall be deemed necessary so to do, shall have power to 
assign and convey the property held by them, so as to vest the title 
thereto in themselves and their successors. 

Sect. 3. Said Trustees shall have full power and authority, from 
time to time, to assign, sell and dispose of any property, real and 
personal, by them held, unless there shall be some direction by the 
donors to the contrary, and shall have power to convey the same 
without purchasers being obliged to see to the application of the 
purchase moneys, when authorized so to do by a vote of two-thirds 
\ 2 A) of the members present at any regular or special meeting of the 
Board of Managers, provided, that they shall not be obliged to sell 
or convey unless a majority of their own Board shall also approve. 



Sect. 4. Said Trustees shall not be confined to legal investments, 
but shall have full power to invest in any real property, improvements 
and alterations, and in any securities, other than shares of stock, or 
unusual personal obligations, which to them may seem advisable. 
They shall take such care and control of the property as is usual and 
proper. 

Sect. 5. Said Trustees shall have power to appoint agents to act 
for them, and for the acts of such agents they shall not be personally 
responsible where they have exercised ordinary prudence in selecting 
them. 

Sect. 6. Said Trustees shall have power to carry into effect any 
special trusts upon which any property may be held by them. They 
shall pay out all necessary and proper costs, charges and expenses, 
and from time to time shall pay over the net income, unless other- 
wise directed by the donors, to the Board of Managers, to be applied 
by them, under the instructions of said Trustees, to the general uses 
of the Institute. The same, however, not to be liable to the debts 
thereof, but so that the continuance and efficiency of the Institute 
shall be preserved. 

Sect. 7. At the annual meeting of the Board of Managers in 
each year, said Board of Trustees shall present a report of their pro- 
ceedings and a detailed statement of their receipts and expenditures 
for the year. An approval of such account shall be final and con- 
clusive, and shall bar any right to demand any other or further 
accounting. 

Sect. 8. The Board of Trustees, at a meeting of the members of 
the Institute, called after three (3) months' special notice, at which 
the holders of nine-tenths ( t 9 q) of the whole outstanding shares of 
stock shall vote affirmatively, may convey all property, real and 
personal, in them vested, to the Institute, free and clear of all trusts; 
provided, that there be no specific trusts violated by such conveyance, 
and that all the members of said Board, as the same shall then be 
constituted, shall approve of such conveyance. 

Article II. — Stock. 

Section i. The Real and Personal Estates of the Institute as 
held upon the First Day of January, One Thousand Eight Hundred 
and Eighty-one, shall be valued at One Hundred Thousand Dollars, 
and shall be represented by Ten Thousand Shares of Stock of the par 
value of Ten Dollars each. Said shares shall be divided into two 
classes, viz. : — 

First Class. — Shares not registered for use: on which no annual 
payment shall be charged or collected, and the holders thereof shall 



not have the privileges of members of the Institute, but may, if of 
legal age, vote at any annuai election for officers, managers and 
auditors, upon the payment of One Dollar upon each share of stock 
on which they may desire to vote; provided, however, such shares 
have been held by the same person at least three months before such 
election. 

Shares of the First Class may be converted into shares of the 
Second Class, at the pleasure of the owners, provided the transfer be 
approved by the Board of Managers; but, when once so converted, 
they shall always continue in the Second Class. 

Second Class. — Shares registered for use: on which Six Dollars 
per annum shall be due and payable in advance on the first day of 
October in each year, except as hereinafter provided. 

All subscriptions to stock shall be approved by the Board of 
Managers before the certificate can be issued. 

Sect. 2. The holders of Second Class stock shall be entitled to 
the use of the library, lectures and reading-room; and, if of legal age, 
to all other privileges of membership in the Institute, so long as they 
make the annual payment in advance; and shall, on the payment of 
One Dollar therefor, be entitled to a Certificate of Membership. 

Sect. 3. It the annual dues for two successive years remain 
unpaid at the expiration of two and a half years on any share of stock 
of the Second Class, such share shall then become forfeited to the 
Institute; but such forfeiture may be remitted by a unanimous vote 
of the Board of Managers. 

Sect. 4. Certificates for the First Class stock may be issued for 
any number of shares in a single certificate; but every certificate for 
the Second Class shall be for one share only. 

Sect. 5. All certificates of stock shall be signed by the President 
and Secretary; shall be issued by the Actuary, and shall be transfer- 
able only on the books of the Institute by the owner, or his legal 
representative, on the surrender of the old certificate, and on the 
payment of the Stamp Tax, and of a fee of twenty-five cents for each 
certificate. 

Sect. 6. No share of stock in the Second Class shall be trans- 
ferred until all arrearages and fines are paid, and all books and 
tickets returned, and the transfer approved by the Board of Managers. 

Sect. 7. The shares of stock obtained by the Institute by lega- 
cies, donations or forfeiture, shall at once be canceled. 

Article III. — Members. 
Section i. The members of the Institute shall consist of manu- 
facturers, mechanics, artisans, and persons friendly to the mechanic 



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arts, and they may be either annual contributors, life members, perma- 
nent members, holders of Second Class stock, honorary or corre- 
sponding members. 

Sect. 2. The name, occupation and place of business or residence 
of any persons, other than a holder of Second Class stock, desirous of 
becoming a member, shall be entered in a book (kept for the purpose 
in the Hall of the Institute, always open for inspection) by any mem- 
ber of the Institute, who shall enter his own name at the same time 
with that of the candidate whom he proposes. These names so pro- 
posed shall be acted upon by the Board of Managers from time to 
time. 

Sect. 3. The privileges of membership in the Institute shall 
extend only to persons of legal age who are not in arrears and who 
shall have signed the charter and by-laws. 

Sect. 4. Honorary and corresponding members shall be nomi- 
nated by the Board of Managers, and shall require for their election 
four-fifths of the votes of the members present at any meeting at 
which their nomination may be acted upon. 

Sect. 5. Members shall be entitled to a Certificate of Member- 
ship on payment of One Dollar. 

Sect. 6. Resignations of membership shall be made to the Board 
of Managers in writing, but shall not be accepted until all dues, fines, 
and arrears of dues at the rate of seventy-five cents a month, subse- 
quent to the first of October and up to the date of resignation, shall 
have been paid, and books and tickets returned. 

Sect. 7. Members whose yearly dues are in arrears for more 
than three years shall be considered as having resigned, and the 
Actuary is directed to strike their names from the list of members. 

Sect. 8. Non-resident members shall be those who reside per- 
manently at a distance not less than twenty-five miles from 
Philadelphia. 

Holders of Second Class stock, contributing members and can- 
didates for membership wishing to be classed as non-resident mem- 
bers, are required to present a request therefor to the Board of 
Managers, which may, at its discretion, grant the request. No per- 
son, however, shall be enrolled as a non-resident member who may 
reside for a portion of the year in Philadelphia, and no request for 
such enrollment shall be granted to any holder of Second Class Stock 
or contributing members who may be temporarily absent from the 
city for a period of less than one year. 

Article IV. — Payments. 
Section i. The annual dues of contributing members shall be 
eight dollars; a life membership (not transferable) may be acquired 



by the payment of one hundred dollars within any one year; and 
a permanent membership may be granted to any one who shall, 
within any one year, contribute to the Institute the sum of one 
thousand dollars, which membership may be transferred by will or 
otherwise. 

Sect. 2. Holders of Second Class stock and contributing mem- 
bers enrolled as non-resident members shall pay upon election to 
membership an entrance fee of five dollars and an annual fee of two 
dollars. A non-resident life membership (not transferable) may be 
acquired by the payment of forty dollars in any one year. 

Sect. 3. Stock of the Second Class may be held in trust for 
persons not of legal age, and shall be liable to the payment of only 
one-half the annual fees due upon stock of Second Class held by 
persons of legal age; provided, that when such minors arrive at legal 
age, new certificates, subject to the full annual contribution, shall 
issue on payment of the customary fee. 

Sect. 4. The annual payment of fees for membership shall be 
due and payable on the 1st of October in each year, in advance; but 
all members elected after the 31st of January in each year shall pay, 
in advance, at the rate of seventy-five cents a month to the 1st of 
October next ensuing. 

Sect. 5. The annual dues from contributing members may be 
applied to the current expenses of the Institute, but all moneys re- 
ceived from life and permanent membership shall be vested in the 
Board of Trustees, the income therefrom only to be applied to the 
maintenance fund. 

Article V. — Officers. 
The Officers shall be a President, three Vice-Presidents, a Secre- 
tary, a Treasurer, twenty-four Managers, and three Auditors. Two- 
thirds of the Managers shall be manufacturers or mechanics. 

Article VI. — Election of Officers. 
Section i. An election for officers shall be held on the third 
Wednesday in January in each year. At this election the President, 
the Secretary and the Treasurer shall be elected to serve one year, 
and one Vice-President, eight Managers, and one Auditor shall be 
elected to serve for three years; provided, that the officers now elected, 
or who may hereafter be elected, shall continue to serve until their 
successors be elected. No person shall be allowed to vote unless all 
his arrears are paid. 

Sect. 2. All elections for officers of the Institute shall be by 
ballot, and no vote shall be cast by proxy. 



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Sect. 3. The President shall, at the stated meeting in December, 
annually, appoint seven members of the Institute to conduct the 
election for officers to be held on the third Wednesday in January, 
and to act as judges of said election. They shall meet at the hall of 
the Institute at 4 o'clock p. m. on the day of the election, then and 
there open the polls for said election, keeping the polls open until 
8 o'clock p. m., and making a record of the name of each voter. On 
the closing of the polls they shall forthwith count the votes and report 
the result to the President. 

In case any one or more judges of said election shall fail to 
attend, the judges present on the day of the election shall have power 
to fill the vacancies. 

Article VII. — President. 

It shall be the duty of the President, or, in his absence, of one of 
the Vice-Presidents, in order of seniority of election, or, in their 
absence, of a President to be chosen pro tempore, to preside at all 
meetings of the Institute and of the Board of Managers, preserve 
order therein, put all questions, and announce all decisions. 

Article VIII. — Secretary. 

Section i. The Secretary of the Institute shall be a person of 
scientific and literary attainments, and shall receive such annual 
compensation for his services as may be fixed by the Board of 
Managers. 

Sect. 2. His duties shall be to receive members and strangers 
visiting the Institute; to take charge of the library, cabinets and 
other property of the Institute under the direction of the various 
committees and Curators; to present and read at each meeting of the 
Institute a statement of such scientific discoveries, mechanical im- 
provements, or novelties in the arts or engineering, as he may deem of 
interest to the members; and to perform such other duties as he may 
deem advisable to promote the objects of the Institute, or such as 
may, from time to time, be designated by the Institute. He shall also 
answer all letters addressed to the Institute except those relating to 
stock, finance, or of a business character; open and maintain such 
correspondence as may promote its interest; notify honorary and 
corresponding members of their election, and committees of the In- 
stitute of their appointment, and acknowledge all donations to the 
library or cabinets in the Journal, and to the donors thereof at his 
discretion. He shall report, or cause to be reported, the proceedings 
of the Institute, and shall deliver the report thereof, or an abstract 
of it, to the editor for publication. 



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Sect. 3. In case of the absence or sickness of the Secretary, it 
shall be the duty of the President to appoint a person to perform the 
duties of the position pro tempore. 

Sect. 4. A suitable person shall be appointed by the Secretary, 
with the sanction of the Board, to act as Librarian. 

Article IX. — Treasurer. 

It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive from the Board of 
Trustees all funds, which they may pay over to the Board of Mana- 
gers in accordance with Section 6 of Article I. He shall also receive 
all moneys collected for the Institute by the Actuary. He shall 
deposit all moneys received, in the name of the corporation, in such 
institution as the Board of Managers may direct. He shall make 
no payments without written vouchers from the Board of Managers. 
He shall keep accurate accounts of the income and disbursements 
of the Institute, exhibit an accurate statement of his receipts and 
payments at each stated meeting of the Board of Managers, and of 
the condition of the finances of the Institute whenever called on by 
them, and shall make an annual statement thereof at the annual meet- 
ing of the Institute. He shall give bonds to an amount fixed by the 
Board of Managers for the faithful performance of his trust. In case 
of a vacancy in the office of Treasurer, it shall be the duty of the 
Board of Managers to appoint a person to perform the duties of the 
position pro tempore. 

Article X. — Auditors. 

The Auditors shall examine the Treasurer's accounts and com- 
pare them with the orders of the Board of Managers, and report to 
the Board as to their correctness. They shall also examine the ac- 
counts of the Trustees, and report the results to the Board of 
Managers. 

Article XI. — Organisation and Government of Sections. 

Section i. For the promotion and encouragement of manu- 
facturers and the mechanic arts, as well as of the sciences connected 
with them, members of the Franklin Institute may form sections and 
hold meetings in the hall, or such other rooms as may be provided for 
them by the Board of Managers. These sections shall be constituted 
as hereinafter provided, and shall have precedence in the order of 
their formation. 

Sect. 2. Any number of members, not less than twelve, may 
constitute a section. 



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Sect. 3. Members desiring to form a section shall make written 
application to that effect to the Committee on Sectional Arrange- 
ments, which committee shall report such applications, from time to 
time, to the Board of Managers at one of its stated meetings, with 
such recommendations as the committee may deem it expedient to 
make in each case. 

An application for the formation of a section shall be made in the 
following form: — 

"Tjie undersigned, members of the Franklin Institute, request 

that they may be constituted the Section of the Franklin 

Institute." 

This application, when submitted by the Committee on Sectional 
Arrangements, shall be considered by the Board of Managers, and, if 
approved by the Board, the section shall be established and the names 
of the petitioners shall be recorded on the minutes as the founders of 
that section, and shall be reported by the Board of Managers to the 
Institute at its next meeting. Whenever the petitioners have organ- 
ized, they shall report such organization, with the names of their 
officers, to the Committee on Sectional Arrangements. But if they 
shall fail to organize such section within six months after the date 
of said approval, or if an established section shall fail to make a 
report of its proceedings to the committee during any period of 
twelve months, it shall be the duty of the Committee on Sectional 
Arrangements to inform the Board of Managers, which may there- 
upon declare that such section is extinct. 

Sect. 4. All members of the Institute shall have the privilege of 
enrolling themselves, without payment of additional fees, as members 
of any of the sections which are now, or which may hereafter be, 
established in conformity with these by-laws, and such enrollments 
shall be reported from month to month to the secretaries of the 
sections designated; but no person shall be entitled to any of the 
privileges of any of the sections who has not complied with the con- 
ditions of Section 3 of Article III of these by-laws. 

Sect. 5. Each section shall submit to the Committee on Sectional 
Arrangements prior to the stated meeting of the Board of Managers 
in December of each year, an estimate of moneys it will require for 
the ensuing year, and such estimate the Committee on Sectional 
Arrangements shall transmit, with its recommendation, to the Board 
at its stated meeting in December. 

Sect. 6. Each section shall elect its own officers and make its 
own by-laws, not inconsistent with the charter and by-laws of the 
Franklin Institute. The Institute shall not be responsible for bills con- 
tracted by any section except in conformity with the conditions pre- 



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scribed in Section 4 of Article XII of the by-laws relating to com- 
mittees, nor in any event for a sum greater in any one year than the 
amount appropriated by the Board of Managers for the service of the 
section for that year. 

Sect. 7. All requisitions for supplies shall be made by order 
upon the Actuary of the Institute. 

Sect. 8. The books, papers, apparatus, specimens, models and 
all other collections of each section, shall be the property of the Insti- 
tute, held for the use of that section. Donations of objects or books 
to or for any section, shall be received and reported to the Committee 
on Sectional Arrangements, and by this committee to the Board of 
Managers, as donations to the Institute for the use of that section. 

Sect. 9. At the first meeting of each section it shall determine, 
subject to the approval of the Board of Managers, the times of its 
stated meetings. 

Sect. 10. Papers read and lectures delivered before any section 
and approved by the same, shall be referred to the Committee on 
Publications of the Institute, and, if accepted by them, shall be 
published in the Journal of the Institute. 

Sect. ii. Societies now existing, or which may hereafter be 
founded, for the consideration of any subjects clearly within the scope 
of the Franklin Institute, and which societies may desire to unite with 
the Franklin Institute as sections, shall furnish a list of such of their 
members as have declared their willingness to become members of the 
Institute, to the Committee on Sectional Arrangements, which com- 
mittee shall transmit the same, with its recommendation, to the 
Board of Managers. 

Sect. 12. On all points not herein provided for, each section 
shall be governed by the charter, by-laws and usages of the Institute. 

Article XII. — Of Committees. 
Section i. There shall be the following Standing Committees, 
each to consist of ten members, to be appointed by the President, at 
the first meeting after the annual election, who may be aided in his 
choice by nominations made at the annual meeting. All members 
notified of their appointment to any committee, if they do not decline 
before the next stated meeting, shall be considered members thereof: — 

1. On the Library. 

2. On the Cabinet of Models. 

3. On the Cabinet of Minerals and Geological Specimens. 

4. On the Cabinet of Arts and Manufactures. 

5. On Meteorology. 

6. On Meetings. 



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Sect. 2. There shall be a Committee on Science and the Arts, 
which shall consist of forty-five (45) members of the Institute, to be 
elected as hereinafter prescribed, who shall pledge themselves by 
their acceptance of membership, to perform such duties as may 
devolve upon them and to sustain by their labors the scientific char- 
acter of the Institute. 

The committee shall, within one month after the annual election 
of the Institute in each year, hold a meeting, at which they shall elect 
a chairman. They may adopt rules for their government not in- 
consistent with the charter and by-laws of the Institute. 

Special Committees to examine any subject shall be appointed by 
the chairman, and shall make their reports in writing signed by the 
members thereof. A quorum for final action upon a report shall con- 
sist of not less than fifteen (15) members, and when such report is 
adopted it shall be accepted as the decision of the Institute. 

It shall be the duty of the chairman of the committee to submit, 
at the stated meeting of the Institute, such action of the committee 
as he may deem of interest to the Institute. 

Applications for the examination of any subject shall be made to 
the chairman of the committee, either by the Institute or by the 
Secretary, who shall receive such application from inventors and 
others. 

The members of the committee shall be nominated at the stated 
meeting of the Institute in December, and shall be elected for three 
(3) years at the annual election — each year fifteen (15) — except that at 
the annual election in 1887 there shall be elected forty-five (45), who 
shall draw lots for terms of one (1), two (2) and three (3) years 
respectively. 

The committee shall report all vacancies occurring in their body, 
whether by neglect of duty or otherwise, to the stated meeting of the 
Institute next ensuing, at which such vacancies shall be filled. 

The meetings of the committee shall be open to all members of 
the Institute. 

Sect. 3. Each of the committees named in the first section shall 
choose, at their first meeting after their appointment, a chairman. 

The Committee on the Library, on Meetings, and on Science and 
Arts, shall meet at least once in each month, except in July and 
August; the other committees at the call of their chairmen. 

Records of their proceedings shall be kept by the Secretary. 

They shall report to the Institute, and shall be governed by such 
rules, not inconsistent with these by-laws, as may be adopted by them 
respectively. All Special Committees must report to the Institute in 
writing, at the next stated meeting succeeding their appointment, 
otherwise they may be considered discharged. 



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Sect. 4. No bills for expenses incurred by committees shall be 
paid unless certified to by such committee at a regular meeting, 
examined by the Auditors, and authorized by the Board of Managers. 

Article XIII. — Meetings. 

Section i. The Institute shall hold stated meetings on the third 
Wednesday of each month, excepting in July and August. That on 
the third Wednesday in January of each year shall be styled the annual 
meeting. 

Sect. 2. Special meetings shall be called by order of the Presi- 
dent, upon request of the Board of Managers, or the written appli- 
cation of twelve members of the Institute. Fifteen members shall 
constitute a quorum. 

Article XIV. — Order of Business. 
Section i. The stated meetings of the Institute shall be held at 
the hour of 8 o'clock, p. m. 

Sect. 2. The order shall be as follows: — 

1. Reading of the Minutes. 

2. Reports from the Board of Managers. 

3. Reports from Standing Committees, etc. 
(1). On the Library. 

(2). On the Cabinet of Minerals, etc. 

(3). On the Cabinet of Models. 

(4). On the Cabinet of Arts and Manufactures. 

(5). On Meteorology. 

(6). On Meetings. ' 

(7). On Science and the Arts. 

(8). The Curators. 

4. Reports from Special Committees. 

5. The paper announced for the evening. 

6. The Secretary's report. 

7. Deferred business. 

8. Consideration of new business. 

Sect. 3. At the annual meetings the reception of the report of 
the judges of the election shall always be in order. 

Sect. 4. The order of business may be altered for any meeting 
by a vote of two-thirds of the members present thereat. 

Article XV. — Rules. 

The Institute, at its meetings, shall be governed by the following 
rules: — 



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First. — All resolutions must be presented in writing, signed by the 
mover, and must be seconded and announced by the Chair before 
consideration. 

Second. — Any member rising to speak shall be announced by the 
Chair before proceeding. 

Third. — The name of the mover of any resolution announced by 
the Chair shall be entered in the minutes. 

Fourth. — No member shall be allowed to speak more than twice 
on any resolution, unless by special permission granted by the meet- 
ing, except he be the mover thereof, or the chairman of the com- 
mittee reporting it, who shall have the privilege of closing the debate. 

Fifth. — The yeas and nays shall be called at the request of five 
members. Each member attending any meeting of the Institute, shall, 
as he enters the hall, report his name to the janitor, to be recorded in 
a book to be kept for the purpose. 

Sixth. — The Chair shall decide whether any resolution does or 
does not pertain to the objects of the Institute; and in the latter 
case, shall decide it out of order, and from this decision there shall 
be no appeal. 

Seventh. — Nominations for officers to be voted for at the annual 
meeting shall be made at the stated meeting in December, and the 
names of the nominees not declining shall be published, by posting in 
the hall, thereafter until the election. 

Eighth. — The first four rules hereinbefore stated, or either of them, 
may, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at any meeting, 
be suspended for that meeting. 

Article XVI. — Board of Managers. 

Section i. All the officers of the Institute, except the Auditors 
and Trustees, shall be, ex oiHcio, members of the Board of Managers, 
which shall have entire control of the current receipts and expendi- 
tures of the Institute. To the Board of Managers shall be confided all 
the business affairs of the Institute, not specially reserved to the Board 
of Trustees. The Board of Managers shall have authority to devise 
and execute all measures, not incompatible with the rights and duties 
of the Board of Trustees, which may, in their judgment, advance the 
interests of the Institute. 

They shall have authority, by exchange, sale or otherwise, to add 
to or subtract from the collections of books, furniture and apparatus, 
in such manner, however, that the aggregate value of the same to the 
Institution, at any time, may not be impaired. 

They shall have authority to elect members of the Institute, ex- 
cept Honorary and Corresponding Members, who shall be elected by 
the Institute. 



Sect. 2. The Board of Managers shall keep regular minutes of 
their proceedings, which shall be open at all times to inspection by 
members of the Institute. 

Sect. 3. The Board of Managers shall, at the annual meeting of 
the Institute, present a report of their proceedings and of the con- 
dition of the affairs of the Institute. 

Sect. 4. They shall hold stated meetings once in each month. 
They shall select their own officers, except the chairman, who shall be 
the President of the Institute, and in his absence, as provided for in 
Article VII, and shall be at liberty to make by-laws for their own 
regulation, not inconsistent with the charter, or with the by-laws 
of the Institute. Seven of their members shall constitute a quorum. 

Sect. 5. All vacancies in the Board of Managers shall be filled at 
the next meeting of the Institute. 

Article XVII. — Amendments. 

Amendments to these by-laws, to be proposed at any stated 
meeting, shall be posted upon the notice-board by the first of the 
month. Such proposition, when presented to the meeting, may be 
considered, amended, referred, postponed, or rejected, or ordered to 
be published weekly in two or more daily papers published in the city 
of Philadelphia, by a majority vote. 

At a subsequent stated meeting, after such publication, the amend- 
ment may be adopted by a vote of two-thirds of the members present, 
except in the case of Article II, relating to capital stock, which can- 
not be altered unless by a vote of a majority of the stock represented. 



BY-LAWS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS. 

Section i. Officers. — The President of the Institute, or, in his 
absence, the Vice-President, in order of seniority of election, or in the 
absence of both, a member elected pro tempore, shall preside at all 
meetings of the Board. Records of its proceedings shall be kept by 
the Actuary. 

Sect. 2. Meetings. — The Board shall hold a meeting for the pur- 
pose of organizing, appointing an Actuary, Standing Committees, etc., 
on the fourth Wednesday in January, and regular meetings on the 
second Wednesday of each month, at one o'clock, p. m. 

Sect. 3. Special meetings may be called by the President when- 
ever he shall deem the same necessary. In case of his absence or 
refusal to call a special meeting on the written request of five mem- 
bers of the Board of Managers, such special meeting shall be called 
by the Actuary. 

Sect. 4. Actuary. — An Actuary shall be appointed by the Board 
at their first meeting after the annual election. He shall keep a cor- 
rect record of their proceedings; keep a roll of the members, and 
note their attendance thereon; give notice of all meetings of the 
Board, and of committees, by circulars, delivered at least two days 
prior to the day of meeting; act as Secretary of all Standing Com- 
mittees of the Board; notify all committees of the Board of their 
appointment, and transmit to the chairman of each all papers or 
documents relating to the subject to be considered or acted upon. 
He shall collect and receive all moneys due to the Institute, and hand 
them over to the Treasurer; shall act as agent of the Journal of 
the Institute, and shall transact such other business of the Institute 
as the Board shall direct. In all matters he shall be subject to 
the direction and control of the Board, and he shall be entitled to 
receive such yearly compensation as they may determine. 

Sect. 5. Resignations. — All resignations of membership of the 
Board, after acceptance thereof, shall be reported to the Institute at 
its next stated meeting. 

Members who have not attended six regular meetings prior to 
the stated meeting of the Institute in December, shall be reported 
thereat as having resigned, unless it be unanimously voted by the 
Board, at its stated meeting in December, that such member has 
been absent for sufficient reason. 



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Sect. 6. Standing Committees. — The following Standing Commit- 
tees, consisting of five members each, shall be appointed by the Presi- 
dent and approved by the Board: — 

i. On Instruction. 2. On Election and Resignation of Members. 
3. On Stocks and Finance. 4. On Publications. 5. On Exhibitions. 
6. On Sectional Arrangements. 7. On Endowment. 

It shall be the duty of these committees to keep regular minutes 
of their proceedings, and report them monthly to the Board, and to 
report to the stated meeting of the Board in December an estimate 
of moneys they require for the service of the ensuing year. 

Sect. 7. Curators. — Two members of the Board shall be selected 
at their first meeting after the annual election, to serve as Curators for 
the ensuing year and until their successors shall be appointed. They 
shall have charge of all the property of the Institute, except such 
records, papers and books as may be assigned to the officers. They 
shall keep regular minutes of their proceedings, and report the same 
to the Board at its regular meetings. 

Sect. 8. Professorships. — There shall be Professors of Chemistry. 
Natural Philosophy, Mechanics, and other departments, as the Board 
of Managers may direct, to be elected by the Board annually for a 
term of one year, at its. first meeting after the annual election, and to 
receive such compensation as the Board may, frOm time to time, 
determine. The professors shall be, ex officio, members of the Com- 
mittee on Instruction, in addition to the five members named in 
Section 6. 

Sect. 9. Order of Business. — The order at the stated meetings 
shall be as follows: — 

1. Calling the roll. 

2. Reading the minutes and action thereon. 

3. Report from Treasurer, and action on bills. 

4. Reports from Standing Committees and action thereon. 
(a). On Instruction. 

(b). On Election and Resignation of Members. 

(c). On Stocks and Finance. 

(d). On Publications. 

(e). On Exhibitions. 

(f). On Sectional Arrangements, 

(g). On Endowment. 

5. Reports from Special Committees and action thereon. 

6. Reading correspondence. 

7. Donations. 

8. Deferred business. 

9. New business. 



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io. Excuses for non-attendance and action thereon. 
ii. Calling the roll. 

Sect. io. Amendments. — These by-laws may be altered at any 
stated meeting of the Board, provided the alteration be approved by 
two-thirds of the members present. 

Sect. ii. A suitable person shall be appointed by the Secretary 
to act as janitor, with the approval of the Board, who may be dis- 
charged by the Secretary for misconduct. 



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REGULATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON 
SCIENCE AND THE ARTS. 

Approved by the Institute at the stated meeting held June 21, 1893, an d 
adopted at the stated meeting of the Committee on Science and the 
Arts, held September 6, 1893. 

MEETINGS. 

i. The committee shall hold stated meetings at 8 o'clock p. m. 
on the first Wednesday of each month, excepting July and August. 
Special meetings may be called by the chairman, and shall be called 
by him upon the written request of five members of the committee. 

2. At all meetings of the committee nine members shall con- 
stitute a quorum, except that a quorum for final action upon a report 
shall consist of not less than fifteen members. 

CHAIRMAN. 

1. Nominations for chairman to serve for one year shall be made 
at the stated meeting of the committee in February, and the election 
shall be by ballot at the same meeting, and the person receiving the 
highest number of votes shall be declared elected. The chairman 
shall hold his office until his successor shall be installed. He shall 
not be eligible for election for two successive terms. 

2. He shall take the chair at the hour appointed, preserve order 
and decorum in debate, suppress all personal reflections and confine 
the remarks of members to the question under discussion. When two 
or more members rise at the same time he shall designate the one 
entitled to the floor. 

3. He shall decide all questions of order. An appeal from his 
decision to the committee cannot be made by less than two members. 
He may, however, submit questions of order to the committee for 
their decision. 

4. On questions of order, there shall be no debate, except on an 
appeal from the decision of the chairman, or on a reference of a ques- 
tion by him to the committee. On questions of order, no member shall 
speak more than once, unless by leave of the committee; on other 
questions, a member may speak twice, but not oftener, without leave. 

5. The chairman shall appoint the members of all sub-commit- 
tees, unless otherwise ordered, but shall not serve on any such sub- 



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committee; and whenever he shall ascertain that any member of a 
sub-committee is absent, or fails to discharge the duties assigned 
to him, he is empowered to substitute another. 

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

i. Calling the roll. 

2. Reading of the minutes of the preceding meeting. 

3. Reading of correspondence. 

4. Reports on applications, and consideration thereof. 

5. Report of standing committee on new subjects for investi- 

gation. 

6. Consideration of reports for final action. 

7. Reports of sub-committees, first reading. 

8. Deferred business. 

9. New business. 

10. Calling the roll. 

11. Adjournment. 

INVESTIGATIONS. 

1. It shall be competent for the committee at all times, by vote of 
a majority of the members present, to investigate by sub-committee 
any subject which shall be presented on the motion of a member, and 
to remit the usual charge for investigation. 

2. Every inventor or other person who may submit a subject to 
the committee for investigation, shall be furnished by the Secretary 
with a copy of the rules and regulations of the committee governing 
investigations. 

3. The party desiring investigation of any subject shall make a 
written request addressed to the committee, and upon receiving notice 
from the Secretary that his application has been accepted, he shall 
deposit with the Secretary the sum of five dollars to cover the or- 
dinary cost of investigation and report. 

4. All applications for investigations addressed to the committee 
shall first be referred to a special committee to be appointed by the 
chairman, styled the "Committee on Preliminary Examination," the 
membership of which shall be known only to the Chairman and 
Secretary. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Preliminary 
Examination to pass judgment on the character of applications 
referred to them, and, at each stated meeting, to submit a report of 
their work, recommending as worthy of investigation such appli- 
cations as in their judgment are meritorious, and as unworthy such as 
they may judge to be unimportant. 



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5. No person shall be a member of a sub-committee of investi- 
gation who is or has been interested in the issue, either pecuniarily or 
as counsel for the applicant. 

6. All members of a sub-committee making a report, whether 
members of the general committee or not, shall receive notice of 
any meetings at which said report will be considered, and shall have 
the right to the floor in the discussion thereof, and the Secretary shall 
state this fact on the notices of appointment of members of sub- 
committees. 

7. A quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of a 
sub-committee properly called, shall consist of the member or mem- 
bers present, irrespective of numbers. 

8. No inventor or other person interested in the issue of an in- 
vestigation shall be present at a meeting of a sub-committee or of 
the general committee, when the merits of a subject or invention 
in which he is interested shall be under discussion, except at the in- 
vitation of the sub-committee charged with the investigation; but 
after the report of the sub-committee has passed first reading, he may 
examine it, on application to the Secretary, and may make any ex- 
planations or objections, in writing, addressed to the chairman of the 
general committee; provided, that such explanations or objections 
shall be submitted not later than the next stated meeting of the 
general committee. 

9. No subject, or invention, can be withdrawn after it has been 
assigned to a sub-committee for investigation without the consent of 
the general committee. 

10. Sub-committees in preparing their reports shall accompany 
them with drawings or diagrams, whenever these will serve to illus- 
trate the subject of their reports; and they shall be authorized, 
whenever they shall think it necessary, to require inventors, or other 
persons interested in the investigations, to furnish such drawings or 
diagrams as a condition of their making such investigations and 
reports. 

Reports on all subjects must be signed by a majority of those 
members of the sub-committee who have participated in the investi- 
gations. . Minority reports may be received and considered by a vote 
of the majority of the members present. When a report is issued 
it shall have attached to it the names of the chairman and secretary. 

11. When any sub-committee deems the subject upon which it 
reports worthy of an award of the Certificate of Merit, the Edward 
Longstreth Medal of Merit, the John Scott Legacy Premium and 
Medal, or the Elliott Cresson Medal, it shall append to its report a 
recommendation to that effect, and such recommendation shall not be 



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changed by the general committee, except by a vote of two-thirds of 
the members present. 

It shall not be competent for any member of the Committee on 
Science and the Arts to be a competitor for any of the medals or other 
awards in the gift, or subject to the recommendation of the said com- 
mittee, unless the subject for award be referred to the committee for 
examination by a vote of the Institute. 

12. The reports of all sub-committees may be discussed at the 
meeting of the general committee at which they are first presented, 
but shall be laid over for second reading and final action until the 
next meeting, except that, by unanimous vote of the members present, 
they may be taken up for second reading and finally disposed of. 

13. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to certify to the applicant 
the action of the committee, and to furnish one copy of its report 
within ten days after the same shall have been finally adopted, except 
in cases where the committee has made or recommended an award, 
when the copy shall be withheld from the applicant and from publi- 
cation during the time in which proper objections to such award, or 
motion for reconsideration, may be made. In default of such motion 
or objections, the previous action upon a report and award shall be 
final. 

14. After a report has been finally acted on it shall not be recon- 
sidered, except by a vote of two-thirds of the members present. A 
motion for reconsideration must be made not later than the next 
stated meeting after the adoption of the report which it is proposed to 
reconsider, and may be acted on at the next following stated meeting. 
After a report has been finally acted on a second investigation of "the 
same subject-matter shall not be ordered, except on a vote of two- 
thirds of the members present. 

15. After the second roll-call at each meeting the Secretary shall 
report the name of every member who has been absent from three 
successive stated meetings, and has not during that time attended a 
meeting of a sub-committee, and unless otherwise severally ordered by 
a vote of a majority of the members present, each such member shall 
be considered as having resigned. 

16. These regulations may be altered in the following manner: 
Propositions for amendment shall be made at a stated meeting in 
writing. They may be considered when presented, but shall not be 
acted on until the next stated meeting, and shall be considered 
adopted when agreed to by two-thirds of the members present. In all 
cases, notice of proposed amendments shall be given by publication 
on card notices. 



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CERTIFICATE OF MERIT. 

The following is published for information (extract from the 
minutes of the stated meeting of the Franklin Institute, held Wednes- 
day, June 21, 1882): — 

At the stated meeting of the Institute, held on the above date, the 
following resolutions were adopted: — 

"Resolved, That the Committee on Science and the Arts of the 
Franklin Institute is hereby authorized to award, and issue to persons 
by said committee adjudged worthy, a Certificate of Merit for their 
inventions, discoveries or productions, which Certificate shall read as 
follows : — 

"The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the 

promotion of the Mechanic Arts, awards to this Certificate of 

Merit. This award is made pursuant to the recommendation of the 
Committee on Science and the Arts. 

"Report No. Approved, 19 — 

"Chairman Committee Science and the Arts. 

" President. 

[seal.] " Secretary. 

"Resolved, That all such Certificates of Merit so awarded shall be 
signed by the President and Secretary of the Franklin Institute and 
the Chairman of the Committee on Science and the Arts, and attested 
bv the seal of the Institute, and be transmitted to the person named 
therein by the Secretary." 

The Committee on Science and the Arts has adopted general 
regulation on investigations, which govern the award of the Cer- 
tificate of Merit; see Regulations Nos. 11, 13 and 14. 

(An award of the Certificate of Merit requires no advertisement.) 

The following resolutions were adopted at the stated meeting of 
the Institute, held January 16, 1895: — 

"Resolved, That the Institute shall issue diplomas to applicants in 
cases where awards of medals have been made to inventors, and where 
the applicants have failed to receive recognition for their share in the 
development of an invention. 

"Resolved, That in order to further increase the value of awards, 
as well as to give greater publicity to the work of the Committee on 
Science and the Arts, each such award or recommendation shall be 
accompanied by an engraved certificate of the fact suitable for 
framing." 



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THE EDWARD LONGSTRETH MEDAL OF MERIT. 

The following is a brief history of this endowment:— 

In the month of May, 1890, Edward Longstreth, machinist, and 
retired member of the Baldwin Locomotive Works of the city of 
Philadelphia, deposited with the Franklin Institute, in trust, a reg- 
istered bond of the Baltimore Traction Co. for the sum of one 
thousand dollars, for the founding and perpetuation of the Edward 
Longstreth Silver Medal; the interest accruing from said principal 
sum to be used in procuring and awarding said medals for the en- 
couragement of invention, and in recognition of meritorious work 
in science and the industrial arts; the said awards to be made by the 
Franklin Institute through its Committee on Science and the Arts, 
under such rules as said committee may adopt. 

This donor further presented to the Franklin Institute twelve 
silver medals and the dies therefor designed and executed under the 
direction of a committee of the Institute with the approval of the- 
donor. 

The obverse of the medal bears the effigy of the donor, and is 
inscribed around the margin, "The Edward Longstreth Medal of Merit, 
founded 1890." On the reverse is inscribed around the margin, 
"Awarded by the Franklin Institute," the centre to be filled by the 
engraved name of the recipient, with the object of award and date. 

On May 14, 1890, the Board of Managers of the Franklin In- 
stitute, by resolution, accepted on behalf of the Institute the gifts of 
the donor, and on September 17, 1890, the Institute, by resolution 
following, confirmed the acceptance : — 

"Resolved, That the Institute hereby confirms the action of the 
Board of Managers in accepting the gift of foundation of the Edward 
Longstreth Medal of Merit, and in expressing its grateful 
acknowledgments for the gift. 

"Resolved, That the grant of the Edward Longstreth Medal, in 
accordance with the wishes of the donor, be entrusted to the Com- 
mittee on Science and the Arts, subject to such conditions as the 
said committee, with the approval of the Institute, may propose." 

In conformity with the foregoing instructions, the Committee 
on Science and the Arts has established the following rules to be 
observed in awarding the Edward Longstreth Medal of Merit: — 

"1. This medal may be awarded for useful invention, important 
discovery and meritorious work in, or contributions to, science, or 
the industrial arts. 

"2. In all cases where the subject of investigation shall be judged 
worthy of the award of the Edward Longstreth Medal of Merit, the 



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adoption of the report containing such an award by the Committee on 
Science and the Arts shall be conclusive without advertisement as 
required in the case of other awards by the committee. 

"3. In the event of an accumulation of the fund for medals 
beyond the sum of one hundred dollars, it shall be competent for the 
Committee on Science and the Arts to offer from such surplus a 
money premium for some special work on any mechanical or scien- 
tific subject that said committee may consider of sufficient im- 
portance." 

At the stated meeting of the Franklin Institute, held Wednesday, 
January 21, 1891, the Secretary, by direction of the Committee on 
Science and the Arts, presented the report of this committee in refer- 
ence to the regulations for the grant of the Edward Longstreth Medal 
of Merit. On motion, the committee's action was confirmed, and the 
regulations proposed in the report were approved. 

The Committee on Science and the Arts has adopted general 
regulations on investigations which govern the award of the Edward 
Longstreth Medal of Merit; see Regulations Nos. 11, 13 and 14. 

(An award of the Edward Longstreth Medal requires no adver- 
tisement.) 



THE JOHN SCOTT LEGACY PREMIUM AND MEDAL. 

The following particulars are published for the information of the 
ingenious: — 

John Scott, chemist, late of Edinburgh, by his will, made in the 
year 1816, bequeathed the sum of four thousand dollars in the funded 
three per cent, stock of the United States, to the corporation of the 
city of Philadelphia, directing that the interest and dividend to be- 
come receivable thereon should be laid out in premiums, to be dis- 
tributed among ingenious men and women who make useful in- 
ventions, but no such premium to exceed twenty dollars, and that 
therewith shall be given a copper medal with this inscription: "To the 
most deserving." 

The Select and Common Councils of the city of Philadelphia, by 
an ordinance passed February 27, 1834, vested the award of the afore- 
said premiums and medals in the Franklin Institute of the State of 
Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts. 

The Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania, by an Act passed 
and approved June 30, 1869, created a "Board of Directors of City 
Trusts," to whom was referred the charge or administration of all 
estates dedicated to charitable uses. 



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The control of the John Scott Legacy Premium and Medal was 
(by the Act of 1869) transferred to the Board of Directors of City 
Trusts. 

This Board, by a resolution passed April 12, 1882, referred the 
matter, with instructions, to its Committee on Wills' Hospital and 
Minor Trusts. 

The Committee on Wills' Hospital and Minor Trusts, by a 
resolution passed April 12, 1882, resolved that "they will favorably 
receive the names of any persons whom the Franklin Institute may, 
from time to time, report to the Committee on Minor Trusts as 
worthy of receiving the John Scott Legacy Medal and Premium." 

The Franklin Institute, by a resolution passed June 21, 1882. 
accepted the above, and referred the duty of making examinations, 
etc.. to the Committee on Science and the Arts. 

That committee has adopted the following rules in regard to 
recommendations of the award of the John Scott Legacy Premium 
and Medal: — 

1. A recommendation for an award of the premium and medal 
shall be made only by the Committee on Science and the Arts, on a 
report of a sub-committee which shall have been appointed to 
examine such invention. 

2. The invention or improvement to be examined shall be accom- 
panied by a clear description and drawings of the same, together 
with a model, if required, and also a statement of the particulars of the 
inventor's claim to originality. 

3. W T hen the invention is a composition of matter, specimens of 
the ingredients and of the compound sufficient for the purpose of 
experiments, and to preserve in the cabinet of the Franklin Institute, 
shall be furnished by the inventor. 

4. L'pon the adoption by the Committee on Science and the Arts 
of a report setting forth that an invention or improvement is worthy 
of an award of the premium and medal, publication shall be made 
three times in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, stating that at 
the expiration of three months from the date of the first publication, 
the Committee on Science and the Arts will. recommend to the Com- 
mittee on Minor Trusts of the Board of City Trusts, the award of the 
said premium and medal to the inventor, unless within that time 
satisfactory evidence shall have been submitted to the Committee 
on Science and the Arts of the want of originality of the supposed 
invention and improvement. In case no such objections to the final 
award of the premium and medal shall have been made, the Secretary 
shall certify the recommendation of the award to the Committee on. 
Minor Trusts of the Board of City Trusts. 



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5- All applications for the John Scott Legacy Premium and 
Modal must be made to the Secretary of the Institute, by whom the 
applications and accompanying descriptions, drawings, etc., shall be 
laid before the Committee on Science and the Arts, and by whom all 
publications ordered by said committee, in relation to said premiums 
and medals, shall be made. 



THE ELLIOTT CRESSON MEDAL. 

[abstract of the deed of trust.] 

Under date of February 18, 1848, Elliott Cresson, Esq., of Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania, conveyed to Trustees, for the Franklin In- 
stitute, one thousand dollars of the six per cent, convertible loan of the 
President. Managers and Company of the Schuylkill Navigation 
Company — to hold the said sum and the interest to accrue thereon, 
for the following use and purposes : — 

1. The Trustees to keep the principal invested as it now is until it 
is reimbursed by the said Company, and immediately after such 
reimbursement to reinvest the said principal of one thousand dollars 
in such securities, bearing interest, as may by law be designated for 
the investment of trust funds. And from time to time, as the said 
principal sum may be reimbursed, reinvest the same in like manner. 

2. To cause suitable dies to be prepared for striking the gold 
medal out of the first sufficient moneys received for interest on the 
said sum of one thousand dollars. The dies to bear the following de- 
vices and inscriptions: The obverse — a medallion likeness of the 
said Elliott Cresson, with inscription around the margin, "Elliott 
Cresson Medal. A. D. 1848." Reverse — around the margin, "Awarded 
by the Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania." The center to be filled 
by engraving the name of the party to whom awarded and the year 
in which the award may be made. 

3. After the said dies have been prepared, and paid for out of the 
money received for interest, the said Trustees to cause to be struck, 
from time to time, such number of gold medals as the interest re- 
ceived will pay for, and deliver the same to the Treasurer of the 
Franklin Institute, to be by him delivered to such persons or parties 
as the said Franklin Institute, by any rule or regulation they may 
adopt, may have awarded the same. The said awards, however, to be 
in all instances made either for some discovery in the arts and 
sciences, or for the invention or improvement of some useful machine, 
or for some new process or combination of materials in manufactures, 
or for ingenuity, skill or perfection in workmanship. 



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At the stated meeting of the Institute held May 17, 1849— On 
motion, it was 

"Resolved, That the Committee on Science and the Arts be author- 
ized to award the Elliott Cresson Medal to such inventions and manu- 
factures as shall, in their opinion, deserve it, subject to the rules 
which now govern the award of the John Scott Legacy Premium 
and Medal." (Repealed at the stated meeting held September 20, 
1893.) 

At the stated meeting held September 20, 1893, the following 
resolution was adopted: — 

"Resolved, That the Committee on Science and the Arts be author- 
ized to award the Elliott Cresson Medal for such discoveries, in- 
ventions or manufactures as shall, in their opinion, deserve it, subject 
to the general regulations on investigations and the following special 
rules: — • 

"1. Upon the adoption, by the Committee on Science and the 
Arts, of a report setting forth that a discovery, invention, improve- 
ment or manufacture is worthy of an award of the Elliott Cresson 
Medal, publication shall be made three times in the Journal of the 
Franklin Institute, stating that at the expiration of three months from 
the date of the first publication, the applicant will be entitled to 
receive the award of the said medal, unless within that time satis- 
factory evidence shall have been submitted to the Committee on 
Science and the Arts of the want of originality or merit, of the sup- 
posed discovery, invention, improvement or manufacture. 

"2. All applications for the Elliott Cresson Medal must be made 
to the Secretary of the Institute, by whom the applications and 
accompanying descriptions, drawings, etc., shall be laid before the 
Committee on Science and the Arts, and by whom all publications 
ordered by said committee, in relation to said medal, shall be made." 



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At the stated meeting of the Institute, held December 6, 1893, 
the following resolution, recommended for approval by the Commit- 
tee on Science and the Arts, was adopted, viz. : — 

"Resolved, That the President and Secretary of the Institute be 
authorized to affix their signatures, and the Secretary to affix the 
seal of the Institute, to all reports of the Committee on Science and 
the Arts, when finally adopted by it, setting forth that such reports 
are the action of the Franklin Institute, by its Committee on Science 
and the Arts." 



The following resolution was adopted at the stated meeting of 
the Committee on Science and the Arts, held Wednesday, November 
2, 1898, viz.: — 

"Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by the chair- 
man for the purpose of presenting to the committee subjects worthy 
of investigation, and that this committee be required to report at 
each stated meeting." 

[The foregoing resolution practically constitutes this committee 
a standing committee. It is known as the Committee on New Sub- 
jects.] 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



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TERMS AND PRIVILEGES OF MEMBERSHIP. 



Each Member and Adult Holder of Second-Class 
Stock, when not in arrears for Dues, is entitled to attend 
the meetings of the Institute, to the use of the Library 
and Reading-Room, and to tickets to the Lectures for 
himself and a lady, and to receive the Journal. 

Contributing Members pay Eight Dollars each year. The 
payment of One Hundred Dollars in any one year 
secures Life Membership, without annual dues. Per- 
manent Memberships, transferable by will or otherwise, 
One Thousand Dollars. 

Shares of Stock, Ten Dollars. 

Second-Class Stock has an annual tax of Six Dollars per 
share, entitling the holder of one share to the privileges 
of Membership. 

Minor Children, Wards and Apprentices of members 
not in arrears, by payment of Two Dollars, have use of 
Library and Reading-Room, and admission to Lectures; 
or admission to Lectures alone for One Dollar. 

Minors holding a share of Second-Class Stock, by paying 
Three Dollars per year, have use of Library and 
Reading-Room, and admission to Lectures. 

Non-Resident Members pay an entrance fee of Five 
Dollars, and Two Dollars annually. They must reside 
at least twenty-five miles from Philadelphia. Non- 
Resident Life Memberships, Forty Dollars. 

Junior Associates include persons between the ages of 
Eighteen and Twenty-five years, and pay Three Dollars 
per annum, for which they have the use of the Library 
and the right to attend meetings of the Institute, of 
the Sections and the Lectures. 



